Script to search on amazon without AWS

gruimed · #1 (**permalink**) 11-29-06, 03:19 PM

I'd like to write some very simple script (and in order to keep it simple I'd like to avoid using Amazon Web Services). All this script has to do is to perform a search for an Amazon Auctions member on the following pages

http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/sub...038245-4377448

It seems that a simple script that does an HTPP POST would be enough (after all this is what the browser does), yet somehow it does not work. The only difference between the HTTP POST sent by the browser and by the script seem to be at the end:

http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ae-...301183-8462203
POST /exec/varzea/ae-nickname-search/058-3301183-8462203 HTTP/1.1
Host: s1.amazon.com
...
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 41
exchange-type=auction&seller=san&x=31&y=7

Any ideas ?

Thanks
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Shaffer · #2 (**permalink**) 12-04-06, 11:39 AM

Contact me @ shaffer@typrom.com for further assistance. This script is no peace of cake. I'll see what I can do for you. If it's not hard, all I require is a copyright.

GO4TF4CE · #3 (**permalink**) 12-05-06, 10:23 AM

You could try this

Copy the code into notepad or your html editor and save as test.html then simply run it.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="get" action="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/203-3132587-4874365">
  <input name="field-keywords" type="text" id="field-keywords" />
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Search" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

are you trying to do this via xmlhttp??

Shaffer · #4 (**permalink**) 12-06-06, 09:08 AM

First of all, it's called copyright.
Second, how do you know that the form parameter's names are correct? I doubt they appear in the source code.